Dawnlark Plains back when all her quiet words were thunder

she floated in a dark, comfortable spot somewhere just beyond conscience. the wounds were not especially serious but wide and ugly; the fringe of her ear a mess of dried blood and barely-there scabs. darkness drifted into dreams, dark and confusing and fragmented, until finally there came one where Adi rested somewhere near her; all was well and good. she looked at him and he smiled, moved close, and she was content. 

and then she was struggling for air, limbs twitching but body made immobile. @Aditya was everywhere, the colour of his fur flashing before her eyes, and she was fading, her chest burned-

she woke suddenly, gasping in a breath before falling still, mind reeling at the sudden awakening and the sudden awareness of pain; blinking out at the twilight dumbly as she tried to collect a hundred scattered thoughts.

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